Joe Kuan - Learning Highcharts

Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied Computer Science at University of Southampton for B.Sc. and Ph.D. After his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK for more than a decade. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy a company specializing in network emulation and performance monitoring. Part of his role is to develop frontend and present complex network data into stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts with iTrinegy for nearly three years. Since then, he has been contributing blogs and software on Highcharts and Highstocks.

Apart from his busy family schedule and active outdoor lifestyle, he occasionally writes articles for his own blog site >.

I hope this book has its place in the web publishing market. This book is like all technical books; they are nurtured by two teams of peopletechnical and personal. For the technical people, I am grateful to Packt Publishing for asking me to write this bookan opportunity that has never come to my mind and a valuable journey I will look back on. To the team of reviewers; Tomasz Nurkiewicz for giving purposeful comments beneficial to the readers, and Torstein Hnsi and Gert Vaartjes for making sure of technical correctness, and Kartikey Pandey and Ankita Shashi for improving the readability. For the people whom I care about the most, I am thankful to my loving parents for showing me the importance of kindness and hard work in life, and my wife, for continual unconditional support and patience in helping me get this book sitting on a shelf. Finally, for my big little boy, Ivan:

"A thousand miles of journey, starts beneath the feet" Lao Tzu

Torstein Hnsi is a programmer and entrepreneur who has a passion for frontend developing and user interface design. He is the creator and lead developer of the Highcharts JavaScript library, and the CTO of Highsoft Solutions, the software company founded to manage Highcharts. Apart from work, he enjoys spending time with his family, preferably in the great outdoors of Norway.

Tomasz Nurkiewicz is a Java developer with six years of experience, typically working on the server side. He is also a Scala enthusiast. Currently, he is developing a track and trace system for Kezzler AS in Oslo, Norway. Tomasz strongly believes in the power of testing and automation. He claims that every functionality not tested automatically is not trustworthy and will eventually break.

Tomasz happily implements monitoring and data visualization solutions, hence his interest in client-side JavaScript charting libraries. He is also a technical blogger and blogs at http://nurkiewicz.blogspot.com.

Gert Vaartjes started as a specialist in geographical information systems. While customizing these programs, he was intrigued by what's actually under the hood. Here started his passion for programming. This programming journey led him through all kinds of programming languages. As a technical consultant, he worked for several governmental and nongovernmental companies. He has been developing software for more than 10 years. Now he's working as a programmer at Highsoft Solutions, focusing on backend integration of the Highcharts product.

When he is not programming, you can find him working on his small-scale farm in Norway, where he grows potatoes, chases sheep, chops wood, and does other basic stuff.